On Apr 11, 2014, at 03:34 , James Tanner <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 04/10/2014 09:38 AM, Fred Badel wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am trying to set ansible-pull to provision ec2 instances ... with not much 
>> success so far ...
>> 
>> I tried using the ec2.py dynamic inventory:
>> 
>> ansible-pull -C feature/ci -d /home/ec2-user/ansible -i ansible/ec2.py 
>> tag_Name_qatest23  -U ssh://git@repo/infra/ansible-play.git local.yml
>> 
>> and I get the following error:
>> ansible-pull "ERROR: provided hosts list is empty"
>> 
>> When trying a static inventory file with :
>> 
>> [coyote]
>> 127.0.0.1   ansible_connection=local
>> 
>> [eu-west-1:children]
>> coyote
>> 
>> 
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like you are trying manage other ec2 
> hosts with ansible-pull?
> 
> ansible-pull is designed to only run plays against the current host and in 
> fact limits the inventory to localhost/127.0.0.1. 
> 
> If your intent is to execute playbooks when a git repo changes or from a git 
> repo, you will need to combine git and ansible-playbook into a custom script.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/psuedo-code
> cd $checkout
> git pull --rebase
> ansible-playbook -i inventory site.yml
> 
> You could also create a simple wrapper play ..
> 
> - hosts: localhost
>   gather_facts: False
>   tasks:
>      - git: 
>        register: git_check <opts>
>      - shell: ansible-playbook <opts>
>        when: git_check.changed

Hi James,

I am running the plays against the host running ansible-pull. But I was 
expecting ansible to be able to evaluate the group membership of localhost and 
load the proper group_vars files.

Thanks,

Fred

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